diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/cn10k.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/cn10k.c
index 95f21dfdba48..fd4f083c699e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/cn10k.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/cn10k.c
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ int cn10k_sq_aq_init(void *dev, u16 qidx, u16 sqb_aura)
 	aq->sq.ena = 1;
 	/* Only one SMQ is allocated, map all SQ's to that SMQ  */
 	aq->sq.smq = pfvf->hw.txschq_list[NIX_TXSCH_LVL_SMQ][0];
-	aq->sq.smq_rr_weight = mtu_to_dwrr_weight(pfvf, pfvf->max_frs);
+	aq->sq.smq_rr_weight = mtu_to_dwrr_weight(pfvf, pfvf->tx_max_pktlen);
 	aq->sq.default_chan = pfvf->hw.tx_chan_base;
 	aq->sq.sqe_stype = NIX_STYPE_STF; /* Cache SQB */
 	aq->sq.sqb_aura = sqb_aura;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.c
index 0c89eb8a670b..66da31f30d3e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.c
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ int otx2_hw_set_mtu(struct otx2_nic *pfvf, int mtu)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-	req->maxlen = pfvf->max_frs;
+	req->maxlen = pfvf->netdev->mtu + OTX2_ETH_HLEN + OTX2_HW_TIMESTAMP_LEN;
 
 	err = otx2_sync_mbox_msg(&pfvf->mbox);
 	mutex_unlock(&pfvf->mbox.lock);
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ int otx2_txschq_config(struct otx2_nic *pfvf, int lvl)
 	u64 schq, parent;
 	u64 dwrr_val;
 
-	dwrr_val = mtu_to_dwrr_weight(pfvf, pfvf->max_frs);
+	dwrr_val = mtu_to_dwrr_weight(pfvf, pfvf->tx_max_pktlen);
 
 	req = otx2_mbox_alloc_msg_nix_txschq_cfg(&pfvf->mbox);
 	if (!req)
@@ -603,9 +603,7 @@ int otx2_txschq_config(struct otx2_nic *pfvf, int lvl)
 	/* Set topology e.t.c configuration */
 	if (lvl == NIX_TXSCH_LVL_SMQ) {
 		req->reg[0] = NIX_AF_SMQX_CFG(schq);
-		req->regval[0] = ((pfvf->netdev->max_mtu + OTX2_ETH_HLEN) << 8)
-				  | OTX2_MIN_MTU;
-
+		req->regval[0] = ((u64)pfvf->tx_max_pktlen << 8) | OTX2_MIN_MTU;
 		req->regval[0] |= (0x20ULL << 51) | (0x80ULL << 39) |
 				  (0x2ULL << 36);
 		req->num_regs++;
@@ -800,7 +798,7 @@ int otx2_sq_aq_init(void *dev, u16 qidx, u16 sqb_aura)
 	aq->sq.ena = 1;
 	/* Only one SMQ is allocated, map all SQ's to that SMQ  */
 	aq->sq.smq = pfvf->hw.txschq_list[NIX_TXSCH_LVL_SMQ][0];
-	aq->sq.smq_rr_quantum = mtu_to_dwrr_weight(pfvf, pfvf->max_frs);
+	aq->sq.smq_rr_quantum = mtu_to_dwrr_weight(pfvf, pfvf->tx_max_pktlen);
 	aq->sq.default_chan = pfvf->hw.tx_chan_base;
 	aq->sq.sqe_stype = NIX_STYPE_STF; /* Cache SQB */
 	aq->sq.sqb_aura = sqb_aura;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.h
index a05f6bdac01e..61e52812983f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.h
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ struct otx2_nic {
 	struct net_device	*netdev;
 	struct dev_hw_ops	*hw_ops;
 	void			*iommu_domain;
-	u16			max_frs;
+	u16			tx_max_pktlen;
 	u16			rbsize; /* Receive buffer size */
 
 #define OTX2_FLAG_RX_TSTAMP_ENABLED		BIT_ULL(0)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c
index f24e920324eb..1e0d0c9c1dac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c
@@ -1312,16 +1312,14 @@ static int otx2_get_rbuf_size(struct otx2_nic *pf, int mtu)
 	 * NIX transfers entire data using 6 segments/buffers and writes
 	 * a CQE_RX descriptor with those segment addresses. First segment
 	 * has additional data prepended to packet. Also software omits a
-	 * headroom of 128 bytes and sizeof(struct skb_shared_info) in
-	 * each segment. Hence the total size of memory needed
-	 * to receive a packet with 'mtu' is:
+	 * headroom of 128 bytes in each segment. Hence the total size of
+	 * memory needed to receive a packet with 'mtu' is:
 	 * frame size =  mtu + additional data;
-	 * memory = frame_size + (headroom + struct skb_shared_info size) * 6;
+	 * memory = frame_size + headroom * 6;
 	 * each receive buffer size = memory / 6;
 	 */
 	frame_size = mtu + OTX2_ETH_HLEN + OTX2_HW_TIMESTAMP_LEN;
-	total_size = frame_size + (OTX2_HEAD_ROOM +
-		     OTX2_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info))) * 6;
+	total_size = frame_size + OTX2_HEAD_ROOM * 6;
 	rbuf_size = total_size / 6;
 
 	return ALIGN(rbuf_size, 2048);
@@ -1343,7 +1341,8 @@ static int otx2_init_hw_resources(struct otx2_nic *pf)
 	hw->sqpool_cnt = hw->tot_tx_queues;
 	hw->pool_cnt = hw->rqpool_cnt + hw->sqpool_cnt;
 
-	pf->max_frs = pf->netdev->mtu + OTX2_ETH_HLEN + OTX2_HW_TIMESTAMP_LEN;
+	/* Maximum hardware supported transmit length */
+	pf->tx_max_pktlen = pf->netdev->max_mtu + OTX2_ETH_HLEN;
 
 	pf->rbsize = otx2_get_rbuf_size(pf, pf->netdev->mtu);
 
@@ -1807,7 +1806,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t otx2_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
 
 	/* Check for minimum and maximum packet length */
 	if (skb->len <= ETH_HLEN ||
-	    (!skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size && skb->len > pf->max_frs)) {
+	    (!skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size && skb->len > pf->tx_max_pktlen)) {
 		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 	}
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.c
index 2d2b67319340..0cc6353254bf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.c
@@ -181,8 +181,9 @@ static void otx2_set_rxtstamp(struct otx2_nic *pfvf,
 	skb_hwtstamps(skb)->hwtstamp = ns_to_ktime(tsns);
 }
 
-static void otx2_skb_add_frag(struct otx2_nic *pfvf, struct sk_buff *skb,
-			      u64 iova, int len, struct nix_rx_parse_s *parse)
+static bool otx2_skb_add_frag(struct otx2_nic *pfvf, struct sk_buff *skb,
+			      u64 iova, int len, struct nix_rx_parse_s *parse,
+			      int qidx)
 {
 	struct page *page;
 	int off = 0;
@@ -203,11 +204,22 @@ static void otx2_skb_add_frag(struct otx2_nic *pfvf, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	}
 
 	page = virt_to_page(va);
-	skb_add_rx_frag(skb, skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags, page,
-			va - page_address(page) + off, len - off, pfvf->rbsize);
+	if (likely(skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags < MAX_SKB_FRAGS)) {
+		skb_add_rx_frag(skb, skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags, page,
+				va - page_address(page) + off,
+				len - off, pfvf->rbsize);
 
-	otx2_dma_unmap_page(pfvf, iova - OTX2_HEAD_ROOM,
-			    pfvf->rbsize, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
+		otx2_dma_unmap_page(pfvf, iova - OTX2_HEAD_ROOM,
+				    pfvf->rbsize, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	/* If more than MAX_SKB_FRAGS fragments are received then
+	 * give back those buffer pointers to hardware for reuse.
+	 */
+	pfvf->hw_ops->aura_freeptr(pfvf, qidx, iova & ~0x07ULL);
+
+	return false;
 }
 
 static void otx2_set_rxhash(struct otx2_nic *pfvf,
@@ -349,9 +361,9 @@ static void otx2_rcv_pkt_handler(struct otx2_nic *pfvf,
 		seg_addr = &sg->seg_addr;
 		seg_size = (void *)sg;
 		for (seg = 0; seg < sg->segs; seg++, seg_addr++) {
-			otx2_skb_add_frag(pfvf, skb, *seg_addr, seg_size[seg],
-					  parse);
-			cq->pool_ptrs++;
+			if (otx2_skb_add_frag(pfvf, skb, *seg_addr,
+					      seg_size[seg], parse, cq->cq_idx))
+				cq->pool_ptrs++;
 		}
 		start += sizeof(*sg);
 	}
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.h
index 5c05774a8d05..f1a04cf9210c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_txrx.h
@@ -39,9 +39,7 @@
 #define RCV_FRAG_LEN(x)	\
 		((RCV_FRAG_LEN1(x) < 2048) ? 2048 : RCV_FRAG_LEN1(x))
 
-#define DMA_BUFFER_LEN(x)		\
-		((x) - OTX2_HEAD_ROOM - \
-		OTX2_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)))
+#define DMA_BUFFER_LEN(x)	((x) - OTX2_HEAD_ROOM)
 
 /* IRQ triggered when NIX_LF_CINTX_CNT[ECOUNT]
  * is equal to this value.